I thought so. I don't want to remove my system install QEMU binaries, so I'm forcing Nova's virt/libvirt/config.py to set the 'emulator' for devices to my custom QEMU binary.
I _think_ this should work. I haven't tried forcing libvirt to use a non-standard QEMU before. -- Wolf On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:55:04AM -0400, Wolfgang Richter wrote: > > If I compile a custom QEMU and want to use these non-standard binaries > when > > starting instances, how do I override the defaults OpenStack uses via > > libvirt? > > > > Is there an easy OpenStack option? > > > > Or do I need to implement a custom LibvirtDriver ? > > OpenStack delegates to Libvirt to pick the QEMU binary to use > > Libvirt in turns detects the QEMU binaries by searching $PATH. > > So if you install your own binaries, just make sure your > install location is at the front of $PATH when starting > the libvirtd daemon. > > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ > :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org > :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ > :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc > :| > -- Wolf
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